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Knowing al-Qaeda
The Epistemology of Terrorism
Edited by
CHRISTINA HELLMICH and ANDREAS BEHNKE
University of Reading, UK
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
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Knowing al-Qaeda : the epistemology of terrorism. (Rethinking political and international theory)
1. Qaida (Organization) 2. Islamic fundamentalism. 3. Terrorism Religious aspects Islam. 4. Ideology Religious aspects Islam. 5. Salafiyah. I. Series II. Hellmich, Christina III. Behnke, Andreas.
1978
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Knowing Al-Qaeda : the epistemology of terrorism / edited by Christina Hellmich and Behnke, Andreas.
p. cm. (Rethinking political and international theory)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2366-9 (hbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3155-9113-1 (ebook)
1. Qaida (Organization) 2. Terrorism. 3. Terrorism Religious aspects Islam. I.
Hellmich, Christina. II. Behnke, Andreas, 1978
HV6432.5.Q2K56 2012
363.325dc23
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Contents
Andreas Behnke and Christina Hellmich
Christina Hellmich
Anna M. Agathangelou
Lars Berger
Rashmi Singh
Andreas Behnke
Ali Parchami
Nadya Ali
Alan Cromartie
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Anna M. Agathangelou is an Associate Professor at York University, Toronto. Her first book titled Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity (2004) was published by Palgrave/Macmillan and her most recent book co-authored with L.H.M Ling, Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (2009) was published by Routledge. She recently co-edited a special forum with Nevzat Soguk titled Rocking the Kasbah: Insurrectional Politics, the Arab Streets, and Global Revolution in the 21st Century published in Globalizations (2011, 8:3) and another special issue (with Kyle D. Killian) to be published in InTensions (http://www.yorku.ca/intent/cfw.html) titled Defatalizing the Present and Creating Radical Alternatives in the 21st century.
Nadya Ali is a PhD student in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Reading. Her thesis looks at the role of radicalization in counter-terrorism policy and the impact this has on Muslim identity formation in the UK. Her research interests also include understandings of gender and political violence.
Andreas Behnke is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Reading. His research interests include International Political Theory, Critical Security Studies and the relationship between different forms of political violence and globalisation. He is the author of Terrorising the Political: 9/11 Within the Context of The Globalisation of Violence, published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and Recognising Violence: Terrorism as Symbolic Violence in Th. Lindemann and E. Ringmar (eds), The International Politics of Recognition, Paradigm Publishers 2011.
Lars Berger received his MA and PhD in Political Science from the Friedrich-Schiller University before joining Salford University in September 2007. He has travelled and researched widely in the Middle East, including stays the American University in Cairo, the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies in Tel Aviv/Israel, and the King Faisal Centre for Islamic Research and Studies in Riyadh/Saudi Arabia. In 200203, he joined the American Political Science Associations Congressional Fellowship Program. Lars current research interest focusses on images of the West and Western policies in Arab public debate.
Alan Cromartie is Professor in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Reading. He is the author of The constitutionalist revolution: an essay on the history of England (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006) and the editor of Thomas Hobbes, A dialogue between a philosopher and a student (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005). In his capacity as Director of the Leverhulme Trusts Liberal Way of War Programme, he is writing a book on the history of appeals to human rights.
Christina Hellmich is Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Reading. She is a specialist in Middle East politics with a particular interest in Pan-Islam and political violence. Her recent book, Al-Qaeda: From Global Network to Local Franchise (London: Zed, 2011) examines the key sources that inform the present understanding of al-Qaeda. Her new research project, Landscapes of Jihad: Al-Qaeda and the challenge of Islamic pluralism in Yemen
